Satapatha Bramhana Part 02

SR No.: 007678
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Julius Eggeling
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1885
Total Pages: 2521
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 44 MB

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SATAPATHA-BRAHMANA.
10. They take the pressing-stones, the Somatrough (drona-kalasa), Vâyu's cups", the (twenty pieces of) fire-wood, the enclosing-sticks of kârshmarya wood (Gmelina Arborea), one prastara of asvavâla grass?, and the two Vidhritis of sugarcane; that barhis (which was used before") is tied up therewith. Further, the two spits for (roasting) the omenta“, the two ropes (for binding the stake and victims), the two churning-sticks (for producing fire), the adhimanthana chip, and the two vrishara", -having taken up all these they go forward (to the Âgnidhra): thus the sacrifice goes upwards.
11. While they proceed thither, he makes (the sacrificer) say the text (Vâg. S. V, 36; Rig-veda I, 189, 1), 'O Agni, lead us on a good path unto wealth, thou, O God, that knowest all works! keep thou from us the sin that leadeth astray, and we will offer unto thee most ample adoration!' He thereby places Agni in front, and Agni marches in front repelling the evil spirits; and they. take him thither on a (way) free from danger and
Agnîshoma-pranayana. For the seventeen verses (brought up to twenty-one by repetitions) of the Hotri, see Ait. Br. I, 30 (Haug, Translation, p. 68); Åsv. IV, 10. The Soma is carried either by the Brahman himself or by the sacrificer. Kâty. XI, 1, 13, 14.
1 The Vayavya'are wooden cups shaped like a mortar. It seems here to include all the Soma-cups, see IV, 1,3,7-10; Kâty. VIII, 7,5.
See III, 4, 1, 17-18. 3 Viz. at the guest-offering, see p. 103, note 3. It was tied up with the three objects mentioned immediately before.
+ The vapâsrapanî are sticks of kârshmarya wood. * For these objects, see p. 90, note 5.
• Thus that sacrifice goes upwards to yonder heavenly world, and, the sacrifice being the sacrificer, the sacrificer thus goes thither,' Kårva text. See III, 6, 1, 28, where the gods are said to have attained immortality from the Âgnîdhrîya.
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